Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Hurry the Brogue

   

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   This game was played in different ways. I have described in another part of this book how it used be played in Glynn. This is how it used be played in Bridgetown. A crowd of fellows would sit down on the floor in a circle and the fool would be put sitting in the centre of the circle. The crowd sitting around in the circle would be passing the brogue from one to another, and the fool would be trying to catch it. He would make a drive for the boot when he would see it, but some of the crowd would pass it quickly to each other, and when the fool would make a drive for it probably he would get a "welt" of it in the back of the head. This is how the game used be played.

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   History Edit

   Date

   16 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Eamonn Ó Mirneagh